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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/515/A100
- Title:
- VI light curves of NGC 1039 solar-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/515/A100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Employing photometric rotation periods for solar-type stars in NGC 1039 [M 34], a young, nearby open cluster, we use its mass-dependent rotation period distribution to derive the cluster's age in a distance independent way, i.e., the so-called gyrochronology method. We present an analysis of 55 new rotation periods, using light curves derived from differential photometry, for solar type stars in the open cluster NGC 1039 [M 34]. We also exploit the results of a recently-completed, standardized, homogeneous BVIc CCD survey of the cluster, performed by the Indiana Group of the WIYN open cluster survey, in order to establish photometric cluster membership and assign B-V colours to each photometric variable. We describe a methodology for establishing the gyrochronology age for an ensemble of solar-type stars. Empirical relations between rotation period, photometric colour and stellar age (gyrochronology) are used to determine the age of M 34.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/547/A61
- Title:
- WASP78 and WASP79 RV and photometric data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/547/A61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of WASP-78b and WASP-79b, two highly-bloated Jupiter-mass exoplanets orbiting F-type host stars. WASP-78b orbits its V=12.0 host star (TYC 5889-271-1) every 2.175 days and WASP-79b orbits its V=10.1 host star (CD-30 1812) every 3.662 days. Planetary parameters have been determined using a simultaneous fit to WASP and TRAPPIST transit photometry and CORALIE radial-velocity measurements. For WASP-78b a planetary mass of 0.89+/-0.08M_Jup_ and a radius of 1.70+/-0.11R_Jup_ is found. The planetary equilibrium temperature of T_P_=2350+/-80K for WASP-78b makes it one of the hottest of the currently known exoplanets. WASP-79b its found to have a planetary mass of 0.90+/-0.08M_Jup_, but with a somewhat uncertain radius due to lack of sufficient TRAPPIST photometry. The planetary radius is at least 1.70+/-0.11R_Jup_, but could be as large as 2.09+/-0.14R_Jup_, which would make WASP-79b the largest known exoplanet.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/526/A130
- Title:
- WASP-34b photometry and radial velocities
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/526/A130
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of WASP-34b, a sub-Jupiter-mass exoplanet transiting its 10.4-magnitude solar-type host star (1SWASP J110135.89-235138.4; TYC 6636-540-1) every 4.3177 days in a slightly eccentric orbit (e=0.038+/-0.012). We find a planetary mass of 0.59+/-0.01M_Jup_ and radius of 1.22^+0.11^_-0.08_R_Jup. There is a linear trend in the radial velocities of 55+/-4m/s/y indicating the presence of a long-period third body in the system with a mass >0.45M_Jup_ at a distance of >1.2AU from the host star. This third-body is either a low-mass star, white dwarf, or another planet. The transit depth ((R_P/R_*)^2^=0.0126) and high impact parameter (b=0.90) suggest that this could be the first known transiting exoplanet expected to undergo grazing transits, but with a confidence of only ~80%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/520/A56
- Title:
- WASP-26b RV and photometric data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/520/A56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of WASP-26b, a moderately over-sized Jupiter-mass exoplanet transiting its 11.3-mag early-G-type host star (1SWASP J001824.70-151602.3; TYC 5839-876-1) every 2.7566 days. A simultaneous fit to transit photometry and radial-velocity measurements yields a planetary mass of 1.02+/-0.03M_{Jup}_ and radius of 1.32+/-0.08R_{Jup}_. The host star, WASP-26, has a mass of 1.12+/-0.03 and a radius of 1.34+/-0.06 and is in a visual double with a fainter K-type star. The two stars are at least a common-proper motion pair with a common distance of around 250+/-15pc and an age of 6+/-2Gy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/610/A63
- Title:
- WASP-151b, WASP-153b, WASP-156b
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/610/A63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of three transiting exoplanets by the SuperWASP survey and the SOPHIE spectrograph with mass and radius determined with a precision better than 15%. WASP-151b and WASP-153b are two hot Saturns with masses, radii, densities and equilibrium temperatures of 0.31^+0.04^_-0.03_M_J_, 1.13^+0.03^_-0.03_R_J_, 0.22^+0.03^_-0.02_rho_J_ and 1,290^+20^_-10_K, and 0.39^+0.02^_-0.02_M_J_, 1.55^+0.10^_-0.08_R_J_, 0.11^+0.02^_-0.02{rho}_J_ and 1,700^+40^ _-40_K, respectively. Their host stars are early G type stars (with magV ~ 13) and their orbital periods are 4.53 and 3.33 days, respectively. WASP-156b is a Super-Neptune orbiting a K type star (magV = 11.6). It has a mass of 0.128^+0.010^_-0.009_M_J_, a radius of 0.51^+0.02^_ -0.02 R_J_, a density of 1.0^+0.1^_-0.1_{rho}_J_, an equilibrium temperature of 970^+30^_-20_K and an orbital period of 3.83 days.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/837/15
- Title:
- WISE IR excesses among main sequence stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/837/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This study presents a search for infrared (IR) excess in the 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22{mu}m bands in a sample of 216 targets, composed of solar sibling, twin, and analog stars observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. In general, an IR excess suggests the existence of warm dust around a star. We detected 12{mu}m and/or 22{mu}m excesses at the 3{sigma} level of confidence in five solar analog stars, corresponding to a frequency of 4.1% of the entire sample of solar analogs analyzed, and in one out of 29 solar sibling candidates, confirming previous studies. The estimation of the dust properties shows that the sources with IR excesses possess circumstellar material with temperatures that, within the uncertainties, are similar to that of the material found in the asteroid belt in our solar system. No photospheric flux excess was identified at the W1 (3.4{mu}m) and W2 (4.6{mu}m) WISE bands, indicating that, in the majority of stars of the present sample, no detectable dust is generated. Interestingly, among the 60 solar twin stars analyzed in this work, no WISE photospheric flux excess was detected. However, a null-detection excess does not necessarily indicate the absence of dust around a star because different causes, including dynamic processes and instrument limitations, can mask its presence.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/855/75
- Title:
- 24 years monitoring of Sun and Sun-like stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/855/75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We compare patterns of variation for the Sun and 72 Sun-like stars by combining total and spectral solar irradiance measurements between 2003 and 2017 from the SORCE satellite, Stromgren b, y stellar photometry between 1993 and 2017 from Fairborn Observatory, and solar and stellar chromospheric CaII H+K emission observations between 1992 and 2016 from Lowell Observatory. The new data and their analysis strengthen the relationships found previously between chromospheric and brightness variability on the decadal timescale of the solar activity cycle. Both chromospheric H+K and photometric b, y variability among Sun-like stars are related to average chromospheric activity by power laws on this timescale. Young active stars become fainter as their H+K emission increases, and older, less active, more Sun-age stars tend to show a pattern of direct correlation between photometric and chromospheric emission variations. The directly correlated pattern between total solar irradiance and chromospheric Ca ii emission variations shown by the Sun appears to extend also to variations in the Stromgren b, y portion of the solar spectrum. Although the Sun does not differ strongly from its stellar age and spectral class mates in the activity and variability characteristics that we have now studied for over three decades, it may be somewhat unusual in two respects: (1) its comparatively smooth, regular activity cycle, and (2) its rather low photometric brightness variation relative to its chromospheric activity level and variation, perhaps indicating that facular emission and sunspot darkening are especially well-balanced on the Sun.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/81
- Title:
- 20 years of Beta CVn HIRES/APF radial velocities
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Uncovering the occurrence rate of terrestrial planets within the habitable zone (HZ) of their host stars has been a particular focus of exoplanetary science in recent years. The statistics of these occurrence rates have largely been derived from transiting planet discoveries, and have uncovered numerous HZ planets in compact systems around M-dwarf host stars. Here we explore the width of the HZ as a function of spectral type, and the dynamical constraints on the number of stable orbits within the HZ for a given star. We show that, although the Hill radius for a given planetary mass increases with larger semimajor axis, the width of the HZ for earlier-type stars allows for more terrestrial planets in the HZ than late-type stars. In general, dynamical constraints allow ~6 HZ Earth-mass planets for stellar masses >~0.7M{sun}, depending on the presence of farther out giant planets. As an example, we consider the case of Beta CVn, a nearby bright solar-type star. We present 20yr of radial velocities (RV) from the Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and Automated Planet Finder (APF) instruments and conduct an injection-recovery analysis of planetary signatures in the data. Our analysis of these RV data rule out planets more massive than Saturn within 10 au of the star. These system properties are used to calculate the potential dynamical packing of terrestrial planets in the HZ and show that such nearby stellar targets could be particularly lucrative for HZ planet detection by direct imaging exoplanet missions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/457/L99
- Title:
- 25yr CaII-HK observations of F-K nearby stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/457/L99
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We find a significant correlation between the magnetic and rotational moments for a sample of 112 lower main-sequence stars. The rotational moment is calculated from measurements of the rotation period in most of the stars (not from the projected rotational velocity inferred from Doppler broadening). The magnetic moment is computed from a database of homogeneous measurements of the mean level of Ca II H and K emission fluxes sampled for most of the stars over an interval of 25yr. The slope connecting the logarithm of the magnetic moment and the logarithm of the rotational moment is about +0.5-0.6, with a Pearson correlation coefficient of about +0.9. The scatter of points from the mean relation has a component that is natural and caused by decade-long surface variability.
